5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Registration and exhibit viewing

5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks

6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Stress Busters, Robert Naseef, PhD
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8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Following a Prioritized Model of Therapies, Patricia S. Lemer, MEd, NCC
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7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration and exhibit viewing

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Personal Experiences on the Autism Spectrum and Challenges Surrounding Communication and Socialization, Stephen Shore, EdD
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9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Break and Exhibit Viewing

10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
New Insights into the Underlying Biochemistry of Autism: The Mercury-Vaccine Connection, Mark Geier, MD, PhD and David Geier
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11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Ethics, Education and Advocacy, Reverend Lisa Sykes
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own and exhibit viewing.

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
House Calls: First Steps to Healing Your Child, Jerry Kartzinel, MD, FAAP
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3:30 p.m. - 3:55 p.m.
Break and Exhibit Viewing

4:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
The Continuums of Autism: Cognition, Sensory Processing, and Arousal, Marlo Payne Thurman, MS
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5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Parent-Practitioner Open Panel Discussion™ with Q&A session - Please join us for an informational meeting with leading autism experts who include parents of children with autism. Panelists will briefly share their experiences and offer one-on-one discussions on all areas of autism spectrum disorders. END OF GENERAL SESSIONS.

7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Session I
Supplemental session presented by Rev. Lisa Sykes and the United Methodist Women's Division - open to all, no fee to attend this session.
The Power of One: Using the Historic United Methodist Resolution "Protecting Children from Mercury-containing Drugs" as a Model for Broadening the Vaccine Safety Movement
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7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Session II
Supplemental session presented by The Collective Realm - no fee with a conference pass; $25 without conference pass.
Family Repatterning Constellations
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7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Registration and exhibit viewing

8:30 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
Life Health Choices - Your Rights and Informed Consent, Louise Kuo Habakus
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9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Mercury Toxicity and its Possible Relationship to Neurological Illnesses, Boyd Haley, PhD
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10:20 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Break and Exhibit Viewing

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
An in Depth Look Into Dietary Interventions and Digestive/Gastrointestinal Problems, Phillip DeMio, MD
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12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own and exhibit viewing.

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Immunization Facts and Accusations: Are They Worth the Risk?, Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH
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2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Break and Exhibit Viewing

3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
It is never too late – Where we’ve been and where we are going, Theresa Wrangham
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4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The State v. Children and Families With Autism - The Legal Landscape Facing Families, Robert J. Krakow, JD
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Title: Personal Experiences on the Autism Spectrum and Challenges Surrounding Communication and Socialization, Stephen Shore, EdD
Abstract and Learning Objectives: Join Stephen in his autobiographical journey from the nonverbal days as he relates his life to the many challenges facing people on the autism spectrum. Some of the areas discussed include developing skills in communication and social interaction through educational accommodations, teaching of musical instruments, as well as issues faced by adults such as relationships, self-advocacy, higher education, and employment. The session ends with a short audience activity demonstrating what it feels like have autism and to struggle through some of the challenges surrounding communication and socialization.
Objectives
Participants shall...
1. Develop a greater appreciation of the reality for people on the autism spectrum.
2. Learn practical solutions for promoting successful communication and socialization.
3. Understand how to meet some of the challenges of learning nonverbal communication.
4. Become knowledgeable about navigating a successful transition to adulthood.

Title: New Insights into the Underlying Biochemistry of Autism: The Mercury-Vaccine Connection, Mark Geier, MD, PhD and David Geier
Abstract and Learning Objectives: This presentation will provide a clear and concise overview of new research examining the underlying biochemistry of autism. Attendees will understand how newly published research allows patients diagnosed with autism to be evaluated using clinically available, routine laboratory testing to identify specific biomarkers associated with medical dysfunction in autism. This will include examination of important biomarkers, including urinary porphyrins, transsulfuration metabolites, mitochondrial dysfunction, and hormonal disturbances. In addition, information will be presented on the latest large-scale population and clinical studies associated mercury intoxication with autism.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand population epidemiological studies associating mercury exposure with an increased risk of autism.
2. Understand clinical studies showing evidence for increased body-burden of mercury in patients diagnosed with autism.
3. Understand the biochemical and genetic basis for susceptibility to mercury intoxication in patients diagnosed with autism.

Title: Ethics, Education and Advocacy, Reverend Lisa Sykes
Abstract and Learning Objectives: Confronted with the heartache of a vaccine injury, how does one move from sorrow to treatment and then to advocacy? How does one spark the reforms necessary to protect the minds of a new generation from mercury? Why do the Hippocratic Oath and the Right of Informed Consent apply to all parts of medicine, except vaccination? In answering these questions, if we limit ourselves to scientific studies or political debates, then we have missed one of our most commanding arguments: the teaching of faith and ethic. While Congress, the courts, oversight agencies, industry and academia have failed to dispatch a real and present danger to the public health, and especially to our children, faith, with its ethic and language, provides the metaphor by which to win the issue of vaccine safety.

1. Discuss how our personal journeys through heartache and hope empower us to become leaders able to identify the age of “mercurial medicine” and bring it to a close.
2. Consider how American medicine is uniquely mistaken in its understanding of mercury and why this confusion has become a defining characteristic of medical care in the United States, specifically in regard to mercury-containing vaccines and other drugs.
3. By gross conflict-of-interest, government, industry and medicine have forfeited their right to ensure vaccine safety. This role has now passed to a new generation of advocates, of which you are a part.
4. Confront the fact that mercury in the drug supply represents a violation not only of American law but also of religious ethic. Forge a new language and metaphor for the cause of winning the vaccine-safety argument at the grassroots level.

Title: House Calls: First Steps to Healing Your Child, Jerry Kartzinel, MD, FAAP
Abstract and Learning Objectives:
1. To discuss the probable roles of toxicity in autism
2. To discuss the possible biological pathways that that cause a susceptibility in Autism
3. To discuss the effects of diet and supplementation in children with autism
4. To discuss the biological effects of targeted nutritional interventions
5. To discuss the effects of restoration of bowel health

Title: , Richard Horowitz, MD
Abstract and Learning Objectives: Lyme disease and its associated co-infections can cause a wide variety of symptoms that overlap other illnesses, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Environmental Illness, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr Horowitz will address in this talk the differential diagnoses that need to be addressed in a patient with Chronic Lyme Disease. There will be a focus on diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and co-infections, immune dysfunction, inflammation, toxicity issues including heavy metals, mold, and biotoxins, allergies, nutritional deficiencies, mitochondrial dysfunction, and endocrine abnormalities. Both classical and complementary approaches in the treatment of Chronic Lyme disease and co-infections will be discussed including updated research on herbal treatments for Lyme patients.

Title: The Continuums of Autism: Cognition, Sensory Processing, and Arousal, Marlo Payne Thurman, MS
Abstract and Learning Objectives:
1. Understand cognition and learning style as essential, need-to-know characteristics of Autism.
2. Identify sensory states as basis for behavior.
3. Utilize The Learning Model to map cognition, learning style and sensory processing needs.
4. See useful accommodations for sensory processing and learning style implemented in the classroom.
5. Recognize the role of arousal in learning, socialization and behavior.

Supplemental session I, open to all.
Title: The Power of One: Using the Historic United Methodist Resolution "Protecting Children from Mercury-containing Drugs" as a Model for Broadening the Vaccine Safety Movement
Abstract
1 plus the truth equals a majority defining the fight:  the challenge of the autism community do not recreate the wheel:  grass roots organizations that will help us already exist important to identify those least likely to be conflicted on this issue, best suited to help importance of personal connection and understanding of structure/governance/trust/professionalism faith communities as excellent examples:  the work of the UMC investing for the long-haul:  a global paradigm shift.

Supplemental session II
Title: Family Repatterning Constellations
Abstract
Breakthrough and resolve deeply entrenched patterns in this evening introduction to Family Repatterning (based on Family Constellation work) Recommended and used by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt and widely used in Europe, this method can help to realign longstanding non-optimal family patterns.

Title: Immunization Facts and Accusations: Are They Worth the Risk?, Mayer Eisenstein, MD, JD, MPH
Abstract and Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
1. Ingredients in vaccines
2. Why is there still mercury in vaccines
3. Neurological disorders in vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations
4. Risk vs. benefits of vaccinations
5. Legal waivers to vaccines in New Jersey

Title: The State v. Children and Families With Autism - The Legal Landscape Facing Families, Robert J. Krakow, JD
Abstract and Learning Objectives:
On almost every legal front parents of children with autism are finding themselves in the strange position of having to defend themselves against legal allegations. Parents seeking medical answers are accused of neglect, parents seeking a better educational setting in the public schools have been accused of educational neglect. Parents who wish to decline vaccines for their children are called liars and parasites, and subjected to abusive interrogations. Children injured by vaccines are blocked from the courthouse door by unusual and arbitrary legal restrictions. Physicians who use new ways of treating the physiological disorders that underlie the label of “autism” are under are subjected to disciplinary charges. At high levels of the U.S. government the agencies defending vaccine injury claims are at the same time suppressing research that might support those claims. In his presentation Bob Krakow will review the legal landscape facing families, with special attention to the proceedings in the Federal vaccine court where more than 5000 claims of vaccine injured children have been pending for up to seven years and thousands more have been shut out of court by arbitrary time restrictions. Bob will also explain the new effort of a group of lawyers and activists to develop resources that will enable parents to use the law to fight back.

Objectives:
1. Provide information on legal issues facing parents of children with autism
2. Provide strategies to deal with legal issues
3. Provide understanding for parents on how to pursue a vaccine injury claim

Title: Drug safety, federal law and the mercury conundrum, Paul G. King, PhD
Abstract and Learning Objectives:
This presentation discusses:
1. The evolution of our current understanding of drug safety and effectiveness;
2. Some key federal statutes, and regulations where proof of drug safety is crucial;
3. Today’s drug “safety” realities concerning: a. Mercury in medicine; and b. Recent efforts to ban its use in medicine as they apply to Thimerosal-preserved vaccines and other drugs containing added mercury compounds.

Learning Objectives:
1. Appreciation of the history behind US drug “safety” and “effectiveness”.
2. Comprehension of the importance of meeting the drug safety minimums to the product manufacturer, the Food and Drug Administration, the healthcare provider, and the public.
3. Understanding of the “safety” problems and issues surrounding mercury in medicine, including the on-going problems with Thimerosal-preserved vaccines.

Title: Special Diets For Special Kids: Dietary Intervention for the Autistic Spectrum, Lisa Lewis, PhD
Abstract and Learning Objectives: The goal of dietary intervention is to find the ideal balance between removal or rotation of foods that provide maximum benefit to the child, without being more restrictive than necessary. Typical improvements following dietary intervention include: increased language, resolution of diarrhea or constipation, increased attention and eye contact and decreases in aggression, sleep difficulties and skin rashes.

Topics to be covered include:
1. Diets being commonly used
2. How to choose the right diet
3. How to get started and what to watch for
4. How to know if a diet is helping and when to try something different 5. Where to get help.

Title: New Insights into the Treatment of Autism: The Hormonal Connection, Mark Geier, MD, PhD and David Geier
Abstract and Learning Objectives: This presentation will provide a clear and concise overview of new research evaluating the importance of targeted treatments to improve clinical outcomes among patients diagnosed with autism. Special emphasis will be placed on examination of hyperactivity/impulsivity, stereotypy, aggression, self injury, abnormal sexual behaviors, and/or irritability behaviors that frequently occur in those with an autism diagnosis. Further, the presentation will examine the importance of high testosterone (and other androgens) in patients diagnosed with autism and explore how high testosterone induces clinical symptoms observed in many children diagnosed with autism. Finally, attendees will be presented newly published peer-reviewed clinical studies on over 200 patients diagnosed with autism showing that interventions designed to lower or significantly reduce the functionality of testosterone (and other androgens) were observed to significant improve clinical outcomes. The new information presented may provide an important alternate treatment course for many patients diagnosed with autism that are presently administered psychiatric medications.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the clinical symptoms observed in autism and how they relate to the hormonal status of patients diagnosed with autism.
2. Understand the biochemical basis for how patients diagnosed with autism have elevated levels of testosterone.
3. Understand how clinical treatments for elevated testosterone in patients diagnosed with autism have been observed to significantly improve clinical outcomes.